Sitcom Quotes

Working on a sitcom and improv improves your comedic chops. If you do it long enough, the one thing you learn to do is listen to the other characters. — Diedrich Bader

My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom. — Steve Buscemi

My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film. — Judd Nelson

I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. — William Shatner

She's cinematic and I'm a fucking sitcom. — David Levithan

One of my first jobs ever as an actor was working with Julie White on a sitcom called 'Grace Under Fire.' — Tom Everett Scott

I'd like to do a show that's not a sitcom. — Horatio Sanz

I like the sitcom, as a structure. — Dave Foley

It would be a shame for me if I were to become 'Mr. Half-Hour Sitcom.' — Martin Freeman

Sitcom food is by far the tastiest of all showbiz food. — Ken Jeong

I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off. — Daniel Baldwin

You know, it's nice on a sitcom to have an audience there, but there's still a wall of cameras between you and them. — Thomas Gibson

Finding a way to find humor in things that are hardcore is definitely something that, I think, the sitcom does best. — Megyn Price

The reason I'm doing a sitcom is because it's much more approachable. — Tommy Wiseau

When I came out of my mom's womb, I had 'sitcom' stamped on my forehead. — Sean Hayes

Sitcom hours are silly easy compared to drama. Whenever an actor on a sitcom complains, I feel like smacking them! — Tricia Helfer

Don't know if it's good or bad that a Google search on "Big Bang Theory" lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers. — Matthew Perry

We're like the couple on the sitcom that has good sparks but never get together for the sake of ratings. — Aimee Bender

Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical. — Dylan Moran

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire. — Chris Morris

With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories. — Hannibal Buress

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success. — David Alan Grier

The only other series I worked on a regular basis was Benson, and that was a sitcom, so there really wasn't a chance to go deeply into the characters. — Rene Auberjonois

My first venture into TV was a half-hour sitcom on Fox called 'Roc.' — Rocky Carroll

I was on a sitcom called 'Gary Unmarried' for 37 episodes, and then I was in 'Bad Teacher' with Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake. — Kathryn Newton

I'd love to do sitcoms. I think I'm pretty darn funny. — Yasmine Bleeth

Nothing's as easy as it is on a sitcom. Issues that we take care of in 20 minutes on the show can stretch out over years in real families. — Tim Allen

If you're on a network show, it's either some wacky sitcom or a drama where you're servicing a procedure. — Mark Feuerstein

In television, a sitcom is probably the closest thing to what it's like working in the theater. — BD Wong

The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal. — Hanna Rosin

Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups. — Bill Burr

I think the first thing that I really did was 'Traffic Light,' which was more of a half-hour sitcom. And from there, I just got more comedic roles. — Liza Lapira

Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time. — Patricia Richardson

When we're onstage we're not literature, we're sitcom. You have to have catchphrases. — Julian Barnes

I've been very busy working on the ABC Family sitcom, 'Baby Daddy.' — Tahj Mowry

It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week. — Tyler Perry

With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being changed nightly, nightly, nightly. — Amy Sherman-Palladino

The most dramatic moves I have made as an actor have been from stage to screen and from sitcom to drama. — Jasika Nicole

Nobody's ever kept their sitcom character going after the show's off the air. — Megan Mullally

A sitcom. I hate that word. — Angela Lansbury

I have to say ... Justine Bateman may be the most underrated sitcom actress ever. — Ron Eldard

I haven't done the things I've done to be in a sitcom. — Al Sharpton

When 'Family Guy' started, we wanted to make it more like a sitcom. And there was very little music. — Seth MacFarlane

Writing humour certainly involves pain. A sitcom is 6 months of writing pain! — Miranda Hart

We kinda hated sitcoms when we sat down and talked about this. We wanted to do something that was in the sitcom vain but totally different. — Christopher Titus

The whole experience of doing a sitcom is ... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying. — Lea Thompson

I loved comedy, but I never saw myself as a sitcom guy. I envisioned myself doing an hour drama or doing movies. — Kevin Rahm

I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of. — Tatyana Ali

The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom. — Betty White

I really loved when I started doing '70s Show,' though I had never acted before, so it was a great training ground being on a sitcom. — Topher Grace

I had developed a sitcom with UPN, but it wasn't picked up. — Charisma Carpenter

Are you laughing? I can feel you laughing. My life isn't funny!" "Babe, your life should be a prime-time sitcom. — Janet Evanovich

The sitcom's traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations. — Lee Siegel

I couldn't get laid with a sitcom and a rifle. — Jim Norton

Every sitcom needs their straight man or straight woman. — Aarti Mann

On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom. — Lisa Kudrow

To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write. — T. J. Miller

Reviews are written by people who don't understand the process of sitcom. I don't read reviews of anything. I go by word of mouth. — Miranda Hart

Horoscopes, like bad sitcoms, are created for people that I don't relate to. — Dov Davidoff

You know as well as I do that the family sitcom was the stalwart of TV for God knows how many decades. — Bill Engvall

I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV. — China Chow

When I was a kid I never knew the difference between a sitcom and a drama. I just knew what my parents were watching and what was making them happy. — Dan Harmon

I was the least impressed with, a woman who thought Henry Miller was a police sitcom from the seventies. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

We look at 'MyMusic' as the future of the sitcom. — Benny Fine

When I first started I was always known as The Girl on the Sitcom with the Funny Voice. — Julie Benz

It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom. — Nicole Sullivan

I would love to have my own show, and whatever movies come up, that would be fun to do too. But I love TV, and I love the art of the half-hour sitcom. — Lindsey Shaw

Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's. — Jerry Stiller

I think there are still words you can't use in family entertainment that you can use in a sitcom today. — Bob Newhart

Sitcom storylines are usually incredibly contrived. — Josh Thomas

Five years is a good run for a sitcom; seven is good, but usually, it's a couple years of staying past your welcome. — Mike Scully

The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page. — Pippa Evans

When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does. — Matt LeBlanc

Before 'Entourage,' I couldn't get a sitcom. — Kevin Dillon

Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for. — Molly Ivins

I'm a latecomer to popular TV. This is rather new to me, being in a sitcom. It's been an ambition of mine. — Ian McKellen

I would consider a half hour sitcom if the script was good. — Sela Ward

What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy. — John Lithgow

The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience. — Ray Romano

It seems like all the sitcoms on now, the families are kind of dysfunctional. — Kevin Nealon

Yeah, the sitcom world is dead. It's all reality. — Jamie Foxx

I can help you shape your sitcom, I can help you think about what could make your sketch show better, but it won't help you get you a commission. — John Lloyd

The key to any good comic strip or television sitcom is to reset the board at the end of the episode because people like familiarity. — Jeff Kinney

While growing up, every sitcom you could think of, I would watch it, and I loved it. — Jennifer Bini Taylor

The truth is, you win the Lotto. That's really how you have to approach it. You're a lottery winner when you get a sitcom and it goes. — Craig Ferguson

I always wanted to be on a sitcom. — Victoria Jackson

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater. — John Lithgow

I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything. — Rachel Nichols

The only way I will do a sitcom is if it's hurled at me, and I don't have to work for it. — Gabriel Iglesias

I have to warn you, I'm not just some sitcom guy. I'm now an author. — Bob Newhart

It's very rare for the Internet to have a successful narrative show like 'MyMusic.' It's really a case study for what is the future of the sitcom. — Benny Fine

I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose. — Dan Harmon

I bet I'm the only person in history who went from being the star of a sitcom to the host of a public-access show in less than a year. — Chris Gethard

My goal is for 'The Bill Engvall Show' to be a show the networks look at and say, 'Ooh, maybe we should get back to the family sitcom.' — Bill Engvall

I use a method approach to all my sitcom work. — Casey Wilson

I've always wanted to have a Greek sitcom called Olive Lucy. — Zach Galifianakis

A lot of the traditional sitcom stuff I did - I think I could have gone that route when I was younger as a staff writer, and I just didn't want to. — Brian Posehn

My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse. — Kurt Sutter

Definitely not a sitcom, that's my first condition. No sitcoms. — Hector Elizondo